Michelangelo quotes - page 3

The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows. (Michelangelo)
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness. View quote
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The greatest artist does not have any concept Which a single piece of marble does not itself contain Within its excess, though only A hand that obeys the intellect can discover it. View quote
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Only God creates. The rest of us just copy. View quote
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To know each other is the best way to understand each other. To understand each other is the only way to love each other. View quote
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In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it. View quote
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Your greatness is measured by your horizons. View quote
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Sculpture is made by taking away, while painting is made by adding. View quote
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Already at 16, my mind was a battlefield my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms - one spiritual, the other earthly. View quote
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No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death. View quote
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I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are. (Michelangelo)
After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become. View quote
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The best of artists hath no thought to show, which the rough stone in its superfluous shell, doth not include to break the marble spell, is all the hand that serves the brain can do. View quote
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Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold beyond the world she soars the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend. View quote
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